SUBMARINES NOT SO GREAT A MENACE
New Listening Apparatus GREATER FLEETNESS OF SURFACE CRAFT Dominion Special Service. Auckland, July 16. Submarines had ceased to be the menace they were in the Great Warr, largely because of the remarkable developments in listening apparatus and the greater speed of surface craft, said Mr. R. J. Grimshaw, a recently-retired constructor in the Royal Navy, who arrived from England by the Arawa. He added that Great Britain had brought her Navy and Air Force to a point where she was equipped against almost any emergency. Twenty years ago the submarine was a deadly weapon, invaluable in an attacking fleet, but the redesigning of destroyers and cruisers, their greater fleetuess and a reorganisation, of'tactics, had minimised the worth of underwater craft. Nowadays Britain was designing them for use in coastal defences and general patrol work rather than as weapons of offence.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 12
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